DAI GREENE desperately hopes to be back on the shortlist for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2012 ... because it means he’ll have won Olympic gold.

The Welshman was voted into the top 10 for this year’s ceremony, which takes place on Thursday, after winning gold in the 400m hurdles at the World Championships in Daegu in the summer.

And he said: “To be on the shortlist next year I’ll have to win Olympic gold – and if I was to do that I’d probably have more chance of winning it because everyone sees the Olympics as the bigger competition.

“People will have also seen me on the shortlist this year and thought, ‘Well, two years in a row, he’s doing something right’.”